I understand your reasoning now. It does look oem plasticish. That's also the reason I liked it silver better though. Plastic on a 60's car just doesn't fit well imo.
I'm not criticizing by the way,...

I had an 86-87 244GL parts car once that had a 3:54 in it. No idea if that was a special order or what. But I was surprised. I put it in a stock GT for a week. Was terrible. Would actually slow down...